The Immigrant as “the Other”.
The Immigrant as “the Other”.
Towards Differential Cultural Models
Author(s): Adam GłazSubject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Media studies, Applied Linguistics, Communication studies, Semantics, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Descriptive linguistics, Culture and social structure , Theory of Communication
Published by: Krakowskie Towarzystwo Popularyzowania Wiedzy o Komunikacji Językowej Tertium
Keywords: the Other; cultural model; cultural mindset; immigrant;media discourse;
Summary/Abstract: The study looks at how the notion of the Other, understood here as an ethnically, religiously, linguistically, and/or racially “different” immigrant, is portrayed in a specific section of English-language media discourse. The data come from British, American, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand media (predominantly the press) but are limited to six articles in total, so that the proposed analysis is qualitative, rather than quantitative or statistical. It is an exercise in reconstructing a cultural model of the Other, not a presentation of a finished product, which – if and when the analysis is expanded to cover a much more extensive corpus – can yield descriptions of this heterogeneous notion in terms of differential cultural models. On the theoretical side, the study also links cultural model to the notion of cultural mindset.
Journal: Półrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium
- Issue Year: 2/2017
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 83-97
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English